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  1. 1. I need the following to make it real Thanksgiving (check all that apply)

    • Turkey
      212
    • Ham
      17
    • rolls
      124
    • Stuffing
      193
    • Mashing potatoes
      175
    • cranberry relish
      128
    • Green bean casserole
      62
    • Corn
      24
    • sweet potato casserole
      82
    • yams
      28
    • pumpkin pie
      155
    • pecan pie
      48
    • chocolate cake
      5
    • Peanut butter and Jelly (just seeing who is paying attention)
      2
    • Other (please mention)
      39
  2. 2. I really do NOT like this traditional Thanksgiving dish

    • yams
      87
    • sweet potatoes
      69
    • mashed potatoes
      7
    • turkey
      29
    • pumpkin pie
      40
    • pecan pie
      58
    • green bean casserole
      113
    • cranberry relish
      79
    • stuffing
      23
    • rolls
      7
    • other (please mention)
      48


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Posted

Huh, I wonder why?

 

Oh well, not a life or death poll by any means.....just curious. I know what WE eat but always curious what others eat.

 

I voted other on the dislike list because I had to put something for the website to accept my vote. Sorry. :/

Posted

I chose other on the dislike, it said we have to answer both for it to work. :)

 

I like everything but mostly depending on preparation.

 

I do NOT like marshmallows on sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes just not with marshmallows on them.

 

I also do not like fluffy desserts involving whipped cream and pudding mix but that was not on the list. :lol:

 

I mostly want to eat turkey and dressing but I don't need any one certain dish for it to be a "real Thanksgiving" I would like to eat enchiladas for Thanksgiving just as much as Turkey. :)

Posted

Wow...love that you posted two separate polls together. We couldn't do that before, could we? :)

 

Just to add some conversation to your poll...I put that I don't like green bean casserole, but in all actuality, I have never tried it. No one in my family makes it and when I have been to a potluck during the holidays and someone brings it, it just looks...well...kinda EWWWW to me. I'm a southern-ish girl and we eat our green beans cooked, and then cooked some more (which I know is EWWW to some people). :p

Posted

Yikes! Even the Hive knows I need to lose weight! I didn't cast a vote in the "NOT LIKE" question because, well, I like most foods and it shows. I got an error message!

 

It's not Thanksgiving without cornbread dressing.

 

I do not like.... if I had to choose, I'd say .... I can't think of anything!

Posted

Okay, the other food I like to have Thanksgiving day is cranberry muffins with breakfast.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who could live without pecan pie. I am not sure I'd go so far as saying I really don't like it though. Just had to pick one. :001_unsure:

Posted

Wow...love that you posted two separate polls together. We couldn't do that before, could we? :)

 

Just to add some conversation to your poll...I put that I don't like green bean casserole, but in all actuality, I have never tried it. No one in my family makes it and when I have been to a potluck during the holidays and someone brings it, it just looks...well...kinda EWWWW to me. I'm a southern-ish girl and we eat our green beans cooked, and then cooked some more (which I know is EWWW to some people). :p

 

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I like it, and my husband will eat it, but my weird family prefers I just cook the green beans. I don't cook them to mush though. Just a little darker than bright green. I guess it's nice to have one plain dish on the table that day.

 

Also, even though I do make our rolls and cranberry relish from scratch, I will admit to using Stovetop stuffing.

Posted

My aunt's nasty Jell-O salad which she serves without fail ever holiday gathering and I have to choke down a bite just to be polite. :ack2: Lime Jell-O, cottage cheese, weird mix of fruits & vegetables :ack2: :ack2: :ack2:

Posted

Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without *family.* We can eat anything (and this year we're having Indian food b/c my Indian s-i-l is hosting), but it doesn't feel like Thanksgiving without the extended family scrunched around the table. We celebrated alone one year (me, hubby, and the kids) and even though we had the traditional Thanksgiving "feast," it felt... well... like any regular day. : (

Posted

Other: friends.

 

We avoid family on Thanksgiving and then buck up and do our best at Christmas. However, after last year, Christmas might be with friends as well. :glare:

 

As far as food, I'm easy as long as there's no marshmallows on the yams and no canned mushroom soup on the green beans. Even then, it's easy to avoid the offending dishes.

Posted

The only foods that truly say "Thanksgiving" to me (because we rarely have them any other time) are turkey, pumpkin pie and deviled eggs. I don't dislike any other food on your list, though.

Posted

My aunt's nasty Jell-O salad which she serves without fail ever holiday gathering and I have to choke down a bite just to be polite. :ack2: Lime Jell-O, cottage cheese, weird mix of fruits & vegetables :ack2: :ack2: :ack2:

 

 

Ugh gross!! I don't like that sort of thing.

 

There are sometimes bonuses to being allergic to dairy. Blek!

 

I might have to make a lot of crap from scratch but no one is trying to make me eat weird fluffy jello/pudding desserts.

Posted

I voted other in the first poll. I'm Cajun. It just isn't Thanksgiving without potato salad and rice dressing. And, if I'm honest, it just isn't Thanksgiving without some sort of family drama.

 

Things I hate? Cranberry anything. I cannot stand it! We never had cranberry anything at our Thanksgiving meals.

Posted

This was more my hand at trying out the poll feature than anything! I like that you can have more than one question as well, but didn't realize you HAVE to answer both to get it to record your vote.....I wonder why????

 

Dawn

 

Wow...love that you posted two separate polls together. We couldn't do that before, could we? :)

 

Just to add some conversation to your poll...I put that I don't like green bean casserole, but in all actuality, I have never tried it. No one in my family makes it and when I have been to a potluck during the holidays and someone brings it, it just looks...well...kinda EWWWW to me. I'm a southern-ish girl and we eat our green beans cooked, and then cooked some more (which I know is EWWW to some people). :p

 

Posted

we go to our friends' house every Thanksgiving. We take most of the sides and they make the turkey and dressing.

 

Dawn

 

Other: friends.

 

We avoid family on Thanksgiving and then buck up and do our best at Christmas. However, after last year, Christmas might be with friends as well. :glare:

 

As far as food, I'm easy as long as there's no marshmallows on the yams and no canned mushroom soup on the green beans. Even then, it's easy to avoid the offending dishes.

Posted

Must have: family, and lots of it! And my chocolate truffle tart....I might be booted out of the family if I did not make it. It is truffle filling in a chocolate pie crust!!

Posted

My aunt used to always bring something called wild rice rose to Thanksgiving. It was white rice, wild rice, canned mushroom soup, velveeta, olives, onions, and tomato. I shudder just thinking about it now.

Posted

Isn't it funny how nobody voted for corn as part of a traditional Thanksgiving meal? Wasn't corn part of the first Thanksgiving? My mom makes corn casserole, but I'm not a fan so I decided not to carry on that tradition in my family.

 

Alternative green bean dish: My chinese step-mom made this for me once and I liked it so much that we have included it every Thanksgiving. Saute green beans with minced garlic. Mix soy sauce (maybe 2-3 Tbls) and corn starch (1-2 Tbls) together in a bowl. Pour it into the green beans when they are cooked to your liking. Mix until sauce thickens. Serve immediately. It's fast, easy, yummy.

Posted

People with the creepy jello dishes: is this a western US thing?

 

 

I think it's a Midwestern thing. I never saw a jello salad until I met dh's Kansas family.

Posted

Must have: family, and lots of it! And my chocolate truffle tart....I might be booted out of the family if I did not make it. It is truffle filling in a chocolate pie crust!!

 

 

Any chance you'd share your recipe? Pretty please? :blushing:

Posted

I need my Grandma's rolls (made by me or an uncle) and we won't have them this year because my aunt bought everything from the fancy grocery store and it makes me want to cry.

Posted

dh's neices and nephews think it's not thanksgiving without uncle (dh) rolls. it's not thanksgiving without leftovers the next morning and pumpkin pie for breakfast.

 

I voted other for things I don't like. I have never been in charge of yams/sweet potatoes, and I don't have a problem with them when done well, but those bringing them have never made a version I liked. we've never done the green bean casserole (well, maybe once in 30 years). I'm surprised you didn't have mince pie on the list. dh and his sister adore it. they don't have much competition for eating it. this despite a minimum of 20 adults.

 

then there was the year sil made a tomato aspic. :eek: this year, her son is bringing kimchi. sigh. we'll see if it's as popular as the pickeled herring and sour cream that used to be a staple. the chocolate goat cheese was pretty bad - I think the contributor was trying to get rid of it.

 

my most original - I was making cranberry sauce today. only the bag I grabbed from the freezer, were pie cherries :svengo:. . . . should be interesting. dh's making chocolate cheesecake - so maybe it can be turned into cherry sauce for those who like cherry sauce.

Posted

I'm a southern-ish girl and we eat our green beans cooked, and then cooked some more (which I know is EWWW to some people). :p

those green beans had better be seasoned with bacon or you're no southern girl. . . . . . ;)

 

eta: the other thing I got from my grandma - if a ham doesn't have a bone in it, it's not a real ham.

Posted

I voted other on the dislike list because I had to put something for the website to accept my vote. Sorry. :/

 

That happened to me too.

 

You forgot winter squash. And aren't sweet potatoes the same thing as yams?

Posted

I need my Grandma's rolls (made by me or an uncle) and we won't have them this year because my aunt bought everything from the fancy grocery store and it makes me want to cry.

 

Make them anyway!! :)

Posted

It's not a holiday dinner without stuffed celery for appetizers! It has blue cheese and cream cheese, among other stuff. A family tradition dating back to my grandma :001_wub: .

Posted

 

You forgot winter squash. And aren't sweet potatoes the same thing as yams?

 

Technically no they are different although they both taste equally bad to me. I know yams are native to S. America and sweet potatoes to N. America but they are also a different scientific group as well. Squash is also lumped into my equally bad grouping but again it's different from either sweet potatoes or yams.

Posted

Isn't it funny how nobody voted for corn as part of a traditional Thanksgiving meal? Wasn't corn part of the first Thanksgiving? My mom makes corn casserole, but I'm not a fan so I decided not to carry on that tradition in my family.

 

 

 

I make cornbread dressing.

Posted

those green beans had better be seasoned with bacon or you're no southern girl. . . . . . ;)

 

eta: the other thing I got from my grandma - if a ham doesn't have a bone in it, it's not a real ham.

 

Well, my mom is a vegetarian, so she never made green beans like that when I was growing up (she always fixed plenty of meat...she just made sure that the non-meat dishes were things she could eat). As an adult though...YUMMMMM (anything with bacon gets a yum from me!).

Posted

Well, my mom is a vegetarian, so she never made green beans like that when I was growing up (she always fixed plenty of meat...she just made sure that the non-meat dishes were things she could eat). As an adult though...YUMMMMM (anything with bacon gets a yum from me!).

 

I might get in trouble for this, but I firmly believe that a thick bacon wrap is the only thing that might make a Tofurky edible.

 

:gnorsi:

Posted

We do pumpkin bread instead of pie because we like it more. If I make the pie (meaning if we have visitors) there is always leftovers because it's not our favorite. The bread will be eaten for breakfast and dessert though.

 

The only other thing not on your list was mac n cheese. My dds would not feel like it was a holiday without my mac n cheese. We do turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, salad, mac n cheese, stuffing, rolls, pumpkin bread, and we have lots of raw veggies to snack on as well.

Posted

Just to add some conversation to your poll...I put that I don't like green bean casserole, but in all actuality, I have never tried it. No one in my family makes it and when I have been to a potluck during the holidays and someone brings it, it just looks...well...kinda EWWWW to me. I'm a southern-ish girl and we eat our green beans cooked, and then cooked some more (which I know is EWWW to some people). :p

I had never heard of it until Mr. Ellie and I got married. Despite the disdain of foodies, we like it, canned cream of mushroom soup and all. :-) However, not as many people here in Central Texas seem to like it as did in California. Go figure.

Posted

 

I had never heard of it until Mr. Ellie and I got married. Despite the disdain of foodies, we like it, canned cream of mushroom soup and all. :-) However, not as many people here in Central Texas seem to like it as did in California. Go figure.

 

DH had never had it until we were married either. His family was very...eh...about me making it for Thanksgiving but he likes it now. I did see a recipe on foodnetwork.com for from scratch green bean casserole, but I'm not up to doing that in addition to the rest of the dishes. But it looked yummy.

Posted

my husband loves the 24 hour salad made with marshmallows and whipped cream. I wish we could just have a fresh fruit salad. I also cringe when I have thansgiving with my family and the marshmallow laden sweet potato thing comes to the table.

Posted

Wow I voted for all except 3 things. Peanut butter jelly, corn and chocolate cake BECAUSE THOSE ARE NOT TURKEY DAY FOODS YOU IDIOTS!!!!!

 

So joking. I am tolerant of anyone's crazy turkey day fair. As long as you have turkey or something in place of for the main dish, and pie. And potatoes. And stuffing. Or something to replace those things.

 

I LOVE turkey and Thanksgiving!!

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